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Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy
by Marcia M. Gallo
<p>In <em>"No One Helped"</em> Marcia M. Gallo examines one of America’s most infamous true-crime stories: the 1964 rape and murder of Catherine "Kitty" Genovese in a middle-class neighborhood of Queens, New York. Front-page ...
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The Bizarre and Chilling Story of Robert Durst
by Matt Birkbeck
<p><strong>The recent arrest in New Orleans and the HBO documentary <em>The Jinx</em> - scheduled to air on Fox in Australia in May - have put Robert Durst back in the headlines. Here, from the first reporter to access Durst's NYPD files, is the
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The Story of Lord Lucan
by Laura Thompson
<h2><strong>'Sensational. The most minutely researched and brilliantly told account ever' <em>MAIL ON SUNDAY</em>.</strong></h2> <p>Laura Thompson re-examines the truths behind one of post-war Britain's most notorious murders: the bludgeoning ...
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The chilling true story of the woman nobody believed
by T. Christian Miller & Ken Armstrong
<p><em><strong>It was an easy case to close - until two detectives cracked it back open...</strong></em></p> <p><strong>'I pretty much read <em>A False Report</em> in one sitting. It is deeply disturbing but brilliant. I hope it helps with the ...
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A History of Torture in Britain
by Simon Webb
<p>There is an ancient and quite baseless myth that the use of torture has never been legal in Britain. This old wives' tale arose because torture had been neither endorsed nor forbidden by either statute or common law. In other words; the law ...
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A Long Way from Home: Part 2 of 3
by Cathy Glass
<p>The true story of 2 year-old Anna, abandoned by her natural parents, left alone in a neglected orphanage. Elaine and Ian had travelled half way round the world to adopt little Anna. She couldn’t have been more wanted, loved and cherished. So ...
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A Long Way from Home: Part 3 of 3
by Cathy Glass
<p>The true story of 2 year-old Anna, abandoned by her natural parents, left alone in a neglected orphanage. Elaine and Ian had travelled half way round the world to adopt little Anna. She couldn’t have been more wanted, loved and cherished. So ...
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by Edgar Allan Poe
<p>He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension praeternatural.</p> ...
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the killing of Rebecca Ryle
by Martin McKenzie-Murray
<p><strong>SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 NED KELLY AWARDS, BEST TRUE CRIME CATEGORY</strong></p> <p>In 2004, the body of a young Perth woman was found on the grounds of a primary school. Her name was Rebecca Ryle. The killing would mystify ...
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by Michael Mason
<p>When Germany occupied Hungary in 1944, fifteen-year-old Miklos Friedman drew on his wits to survive. Recruited into forced labour, sent to a ghetto and, ultimately, to the Nazi camps of Auschwitz and Mühldorf, Miklos never stopped fighting to
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The Life of a Global Adventurer
by Michael Dobbs-Higginson
<p>A unique memoir in which a young adventurer from colonial Rhodesia charms his way around the world, sleeping in stately homes and public toilets, smuggling drugs across several borders and losing a $50 million fortune to the CIA, before ...
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by Mona Anderson
<p>The original and all-time classic of high-country station life in New Zealand Mount Algidus, the author's home, was one of the great high-country sheep stations of Canterbury, New Zealand. It occupied a mountain range between two ice rivers ...
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by Gideon Haigh
<p>As enigmatic in life as in death, Mollie Dean was a woman determined to transcend. Creatively ambitious and sexually precocious, at twenty-five she was a poet, aspiring novelist and muse on the peripheries of Melbourne's bohemian salons - ...
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A Series of Unfortunate Stereotypes
Naming and Shaming Mental Health Stigmas
by Lucy Nichol
<p>• An inspiring and, at times, humorous account of what it was like to grow up in the 80s with crippling anxiety</p> <p>• Detailed insights into the number of different stereotypes placed on people with a mental illness e.g. psycho bitch, ...
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by Tim Watson-Munro
<p><strong>From the author of the extraordinary memoir, <em>Dancing with Demons</em></strong></p> <p>DRUG LORDS. DEVIANTS. BLACK WIDOWS. HIT MEN. RIOT GIRLS. MASS MURDERERS. PSYCHOS.</p> <p>No one gets closer to Australia's craziest characters
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by Theodora FitzGibbon
<p><b>Discover the many lives of free-spirited and much-loved <i>Irish Times</i> cookery writer Theodora FitzGibbon</b><br/><br/><i>‘I have starved in some of the most beautiful places in the world …’</i><br/><br/>The <i>Irish Times</i> food ...
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when things may not be as they seem
by Robin Bowles
<p>This collection of stories centres on the idea of 'accidental death', and the upheaval caused in the lives of those who lose a loved one in this way. Several of the cases examined here turned out, on investigation, not to be accidents at all.
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by Felicia Carmelly
<p>Transnistria, Romania, did not exist on a map. Yet that is where ten-year-old Felicia Steigman and her parents arrived in 1941, after a cruel deportation and death march overseen by Romanian Nazi collaborators. After surviving three years ...
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Adequately Explained by Stupidity?
Lockerbie, Luggage and Lies
by Morag G. Kerr
<p>Tunnel vision or organised cover-up? How the Lockerbie investigation got the wrong man. Twenty-five years after Maid of the Seas crashed on the town of Lockerbie, this groundbreaking book introduces an entirely new perspective on the ...
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The Case That Inspired the Podcast Phenomenon Serial
by Rabia Chaudry
<p><strong>NOW A MAJOR HBO DOCUSERIES</strong></p> <p><em>'The first letter I received after being arrested in 1999 was from Rabia. Since that time until now, she has believed in my innocence and been committed to my exoneration. . . . [T]here ...
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